Photos: Crisis in Syria intensifies

REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra08.09.2012

Free Syrian Army members are seen at Aleppo's disctrict of Al Sukari August 9, 2012.

REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra

A general view shows a street after clashes between Free Syrian Army fighters and forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad, in Salah Edinne district, in the centre of Aleppo August 9, 2012.REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra

A Free Syrian Army member fires his weapon towards the direction of snipers loyal to President Bachar Al Assad, in Aleppo's disctrict of Salah Edinne August 9, 2012.REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra

A body of what Free Syrian Army members claim to be a Shabiha, a civilian loyal to President Bashar Al-Assad, lies on the ground at Aleppo's disctrict of Al Sukari August 9, 2012.REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra

Syrian Health Minister Wael al-Halki speaks to the media at his office in Damascus, April 3, 2012. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad appointed Health Minister Wael al-Halki as prime minister on August 9, 2012, after the defection earlier this week of Prime Minister Riyad Hijab. Halki, born in 1964, is from the southern province of Deraa where the uprising against four decades of Assad family rule erupted. He replaces caretaker premier Omar Ghalawanji who was appointed hours after Hijab's defection. Picture taken April 3, 2012.REUTERS/Khaled al-Hariri

Free Syrian Army members are pictured on a truck as they prepare to move into Aleppo's district of Salah Edinne August 9, 2012.REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra

A Free Syrian Army fighter aims with his rifle during clashes with Syrian Army in Salah Edinne district, in the centre of Aleppo, August 7, 2012. Picture taken August 7, 2012.REUTERS/Shaam News Network/Handout

Syrian army forces are seen at al-Sijen district, in the centre of Aleppo, August 9, 2012.REUTERS/George Ourfalian

Syrian army forces are seen at al-Sijen district, in the centre of Aleppo, August 9, 2012.REUTERS/George Ourfalian

Free Syrian Army members search a car as they man a checkpoint in Aleppo's district of Al Sukari August 9, 2012.REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra

A Syrian Air Force fighter plane fires a rocket during an air strike in the village of Tel Rafat, some 37 km (23 miles) north of Aleppo, August 9, 2012. Syrian troops and rebels fought over the country's biggest city Aleppo as President Bashar al-Assad's key foreign backer Iran gathered ministers from like-minded states for talks on Thursday about how to end the conflict.REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

A truck catches flames after it was hit by rockets fired by a Syrian Air Force fighter plane during an air strike in the village of Tel Rafat, some 37 km (23 miles) north of Aleppo, August 9, 2012. Syrian troops and rebels fought over the country's biggest city Aleppo as President Bashar al-Assad's key foreign backer Iran gathered ministers from like-minded states for talks on Thursday about how to end the conflict.REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

A Free Syrian Army fighter fires an anti-aircraft gun as a Syrian Air Force fighter bomber fires rockets during an air strike in the village of Tel Rafat, some 37 km (23 miles) north of Aleppo, August 9, 2012. Syrian troops and rebels fought over the country's biggest city Aleppo as President Bashar al-Assad's key foreign backer Iran gathered ministers from like-minded states for talks on Thursday about how to end the conflict.REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

Lebanese policemen stand guard at the entrance of a residential building where former government minister Michel Samaha resides in Beirut on August 9, 2012. Lebanese security forces arrested Samaha, a former information minister who is considered close to Syria's embattled regime, on orders of the attorney general, a senior Lebanese official said.ANWAR AMRO/AFP/GettyImages

A handout picture released by the Syrian opposition's Shaam News Network on August 8, 2012, shows destruction in the central city of Homs that was allegedly caused by shelling by forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad. Violence across Syria on August 8, cost the lives of 167 people -- 95 civilians, 54 soldiers and 18 rebels, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, adding that 33 died in Aleppo, including 24 civilians and nine rebel fighters.HO/AFP/GettyImages

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